CHRIS LAUchris.lau@scmp.com
PUBLISHED : Thursday, 23 July, 2015, 3:42am
UPDATED : Thursday, 23 July, 2015, 3:42am
Clayton Cheung slapped and pushed his girlfriend. Photo: SCMP Pictures
A musician who co-wrote a song for Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying's election campaign in 2012 received a suspended 14-day jail sentence yesterday for assaulting his girlfriend.
As he convicted Clayton Cheung Ku-hei, better known as Cheung Kai-tim, Deputy Magistrate Peter Hui Shiu-keung said the injuries to Cheung's girlfriend, Patricia Cheung, did not convince him that he was acting out of self-defence when he slapped and pushed her in her Quarry Bay home on April 19.
"Looking at the injuries on Cheung's body, there might even be details [that led to injuries] she forgot to mention," Hui said.
Hui suspended the sentence for Cheung, 44, who pleaded not guilty earlier to one count of assault occasioning actual bodily harm. He also fined Cheung HK$3,000.
The woman, who was born in Australia, told Eastern Court earlier that the assault took place after she and Cheung got into a heated argument over his lack of initiative in looking after their two-year-old daughter.
Clayton Cheung then pushed the woman and grabbed her forearm harshly as she tried to block him from leaving the flat, the court heard.
After Cheung managed to leave, they had another encounter near a stairwell on the same floor, where he pushed her so hard she fell over and hit a wall.
Cheung knelt down, she thought to help her, but he slapped her in the face.
Cheung claimed during the trial that Patricia Cheung had "lost her mind", so he slapped her to help her gather her thoughts while buying time to leave.
The magistrate said Clayton Cheung might have fabricated his account to justify the force he used, noting that Cheung failed to mention a lot of details in his police statement.
A director of Big Bang Music, Clayton Cheung has written hits for Canto-pop stars such as Leo Ku Kui-kei and was one of the three composers of Leung's campaign song, We Have a Voice.
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